Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 21:13:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: A Few Notes on 2.2.5-971015-BETA Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971017204252.992A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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I installed the 2.2.5-971015-BETA this afternoon on its own partition by ftp--I got the boot.flp from the 2.2.5-BETA floppies directory but there was no tools directory, so I had to get the fdimage.exe (I was downloading to a Win95 machine) from a different distribution (or whatever it should properly be called). Once installed, it couldn't find the kernel--there was only a kernel.GENERIC file, perhaps because I didn't configure the kernel at all before installing. So I moved kernel.GENERIC to kernel. I also got a message from sendmail[158] that said something about an unsafe map file and hash map "alias0", NOQUEUE:SYSERR(root):, no alias file. I created an alias file and ran newaliases; it quit complaining. Maybe I just missed an option when installing. It also says when it boots up that it can't find boot.config or boot.help. Overall it was fine--I got X and the network running without much trouble. I've always been a little surprised that the menu inviting one to add a user doesn't mention that the group into which you want to put the user has to be added first, if it doesn't already exist (and should in standard cases be the same as the user name, I think). New users aren't going to get that right, but then, why make things too easy? Annelise
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